B4306 crash in Carmarthenshire on 14 March 1989 at 19:45 involving a car
A car crashed on the B4306 in Carmarthenshire at 19:45 on Tuesday 14 March 1989. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Mar 1989
- Tuesday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.74815, longitude -4.10907, in the SA14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Carmarthenshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198963A509189
- Council area
- Carmarthenshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4306
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 51 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 December 2015.
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Carmarthenshire, 10 December 2015
51 m awayRef 201563AC42115
Slight
Audi Q7 crash on the B4306 in Carmarthenshire, 10 March 2020
90 m awayRef 202063A020720
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B4306 in Carmarthenshire, 12 June 1996
90 m awayRef 199663A516496
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the B4306 in Carmarthenshire, 29 August 2014
99 m awayRef 201463AC25214
Serious
Van crash on the B4306 in Carmarthenshire, 31 July 1985
100 m awayRef 19856385A0235
Serious
Car crash on the B4306 in Carmarthenshire, 23 April 1989
141 m awayRef 198963A514689
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,275 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 198963A509189 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Carmarthenshire road accident statistics for 1989.